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Au Revoir Purse Features Get-Away Day at Former Top-Weighted Waco Scamp Seeks Third Straight; Opposes Eight By DEAN WILLIAMS Staff Correspondent FONNER PARK, Grand Island, Neb., May 14. The Au Revoir Purse, carded as the feature race on the closing-day program here Saturday, leaves nothing to be desired. The handicap, to be run at six and one-half furlongs, is without a doubt the best field of nine horses to go to the post at this plant. The field is headed by high-weighted Waco Scamp, in at 118 pounds. The Mount-joy star will be seeking his third consecu-"tive win as he faces Jack Ficklers Charbob, 112; Norman and Terwilligers Teazle, 110; R. I. Allens Whatcetera, 115; T. B. Wilcoxs Owl Martin, 115; W. L. Dorseys Stormy Waters 117; Helen Ayes Hi Timie, 108; A. E. Bowens Copper Islam, 116, and Lawrence Harbaughs Mac Galus, 112. Waco Scamp earned the right to top weight by winning three of six starts during the young 1954 racing season, two of which were scored at this track. He first carried the Mountjoy colors to the winners circle in a claiming event at the Oaklawn Park spring meeting, running three-quarters of a mile in 1:12 over a track classed as "good." Waco. Scamp made every start at this five-eighths mile track a winning one. The last time the Cannons Roar gelding went postward, he won by an easy six lengths against allowance company. This is the toughest field he has been asked to meet, but none the less he is certain to make his presence felt. T. B. Wilcox sent out a fast and fit Owl Martin to post the fastest time of the meeting for six furlongs, 1:14. He turned in a wire-to-wire victory on this weeks Tuesday program. The Wilcox colorbearer is dropping one pound from that winning effort in the closing-day handicap. It can be truthfully said that there is no standout in the field because each horse in the top offering has shown considerable speed in each start here. Copper Islam, Mac Galus and Stormy Waters have all won against the better-class horses at this oval. Charbob, Whatcetera and Teazle have all finished among the first three, racing against a similar class of horses. A race of this type is certain to invite the fancy of the patrons of new Fonner Park.
